Large numbers of Russian soldiers committed acts of violence against German civilians, particularly women. As many saw it, they were simply repaying the Germans for similar acts committed by German soldiers when the Germans were going from west to east.

The difference was that our ertswhile allies, the Russians, were on the winning side in the war. German soldiers (And others on the losing side) who were guilty of similar crimes were prosecuted as war criminals after the war, but those on the Allied side were not pursued.